The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945

U-M Professor of Political Science Andrei S. Markovits presents his new book, The Boundaries of Pluralism: The World of the University of Michigan’s Jewish Students from 1897 to 1945 (Ann Arbor: Maize Books, 2020) [with Kenneth Garner].

Learn in great detail what student life was like at the University of Michigan in the first four decades of the 20th century. Hear about how Jewish students lived at the University of Michigan, how they were integrated by and large, how they made this a good place for them but also how there were limits to this bliss. Discover how the University’s commendable pluralism in terms of accepting others, Jews in particular, had its serious limits when it came to Jewish students from the East Coast with leftist political preferences.

https://bentley.umich.edu/news-events/making-michigan-series/

Andrei S. Markovits is the Karl W. Deutsch Collegiate Professor of Comparative Politics and German Studies as well as an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan